| ID | Word | Notes | Type |
| 2943 | dambarakumārī | n. a particular fabric printed with colourful pattern; ḍhākā imitation. | t.t. |
| 904 | daṃḍakuṃḍa / daṇḍakuṇḍa | n. generic term for judicial fines and penalties. | t.t. |
| 2838 | dānā | [fr. P. dāna] n. a grain, seed, berry; a single small object; something to be threaded (as a bead, a pearl). | t.t. |
| 2261 | dānapatra | [S.] n. deed of gift. | t.t. |
| 905 | ḍaṅgola | var. ḍagola, ḍogola; n. 1) a measurer of land, houses etc. 2) a particular Newar caste. | t.t. |
| 1802 | danuvāra | n. an ethnic group in the lowland (cf. Bista 1996: 139-144). | t.t. |
| 2493 | daphadarakhānā | var. daphdarakhāna; n. registration office responsible for dealing with land assignments. | t.t. |
| 2371 | daphtarī | var. daphadarīyā; n. A revenue functionary responsible for the accounts of land assigned to the army personnel as emolument. The corresponding office is called daphtarakhānā. | t.t. |
| 2719 | darā | n. revenue sub-division comprising a number of villages in the Baisi and the Jumla region (M.C. Regmi 1978: 161; M.C. Regmi 1988: 266), sub-division of a tahasila (Kumar 1967: 165). | t.t. |
| 3083 | darabandī | [P.] var. daravaṃdī, daravaṃdi; n. a designated position with a fixed salary for operating a government or non-government office; determination of the required number of staff (cf. Parājulī et al VS 2067: s.v.); #a register of alms recipients# | t.t. |
| 175 | darabāra | var. darbāra, durbar; n. 1) royal palace. 2) royal court consisting of kings and nobles. 3) court assembly where nobles or foreign delegates are received.
| t.t. |
| 1803 | darāi | var. daravai, daroī, darahī; n. an ethnic group in the low land, living as fishermen and farmers (see Bista 1996: 139-145; Bouillier 1991: 18 fn. 14; Höfer 2004: 8). | t.t. |
| 1518 | darakhāsta / darkhāsta | [fr. P.] n. petition, application by an individual to an governmental office.
| t.t. |
| 3086 | darda | var. dard, n. monthly salary, according to Adhikari 1984: 347, paid out to the soldiery on instalments. | t.t. |
| 1821 | darmāhā | var. darmāha; monthly salary | t.t. |
| 1889 | dārogā | n. elephant stable manager; cp. Edwards 1975: 109; Krauskopff and Meyer 2000: 183; Locke 2006: 149. | t.t. |
| 2999 | darśana | n. a vision, sight or blessing of a deity or an honourable person. On darśana, see
D. Eck (1985)
and Michaels “Darśana”, in: Religion Past and Present,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1877-5888_rpp_SIM_03411 (first published online in 2011; last accessed on 21 June 2022). | t.t. |
| 2339 | darśanabheṭa | var. darsanabheṭa; n. 1) formal meeting with the king or another superior. 2) a cash levy paid to the King and principal members of the royal family by civil and military personnel at the time of their first appointment and confirmation of their services at the annual pajanī or on other such occasions (Adhikari 1984: 347, M.C. Regmi 1978: 226). | t.t. |
| 2312 | dasaĩ māmulī | also dasaĩko māmulī; n. usual obligation to be payed on the occasion of the dasaĩ festival (cf. M.L. Karmacharya 1996: 62); often consisted of non-monetary dues. According to DNA_0015_0091 these revenues were personally enjoyed by the chief minister, i.e. by Bhīmasena Thāpā and after him by Jaṅga Bahādura Kũvara Rāṇā. | t.t. |
| 1854 | dasaĩ / daśaĩ | [fr. S. daśāha] var. dasai; n. festival to worship the goddess Durgā as slayer of the buffalo demon, held over the bright half of the autumn month of Āśvina (baḍā dasaĩ) and, on a smaller scale, over the bright half of the spring month of Caitra (caite dasaĩ). | t.t. |